Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

W. T. MARTIN.

BooT 0B. sHoB. No. 351,186. Pate d Oct. 19, 1886.

' is finished, the seam thns formed will he in the PATENT OFFICE. i

TALTER T. MARTIN, OF DANVERS, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPEIPIC'ATION forming part of Letters P atent No. 351,186, clated October 19, 1886.

lApplication filed September 26, 1884. Serial No. 144,020. (No model.)

T0 all wtomit may concern:

Be it known that I, VLTER T. MARTIN, of Danvers, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvenient in Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists, hroadly, in a backing formed of a single piece of leather extending from above the ankle of the boot or shoe to the heel proper, narrow at the ankle-joint and spreading or flaring below, and having at the hottorn a V-shaped cut sewed up, so that the said hacking may readily conform to the rear contour of the boot when the bootislasted, and so that the completed boot shall not break or crack at the ankle-joint in wear.

The inventionl does away with the seam at the rear of the boot orshoe, nsually formed by stitching together the quarters, and the boot 01' shoe is much more flexible than when made according to the common method.

A part of the present invention relates to a specific construction, in which use is made of the said hroad feature of the invcntion; and this part of the invention consists in inserting at the rear of the boot or shoe between the two side pieces or quarters a third piece or hacking, which is narrow at the ankle and fiaring below, and is shaped to correspond to the rear contour of the last by Cutting a V- shaped piece out of the hottoni, and then stitching together the sides of the V-shaped opening thns made. Vhen the boot or shoe part of the boot or shoe where flexibility is not required. i

In the drawings, I show at Figurel the two side pieces or quarters, A and B, and the third piece or hacking, O, which is to be inserted between the side pieces or qnarters, the said third piece or hacking having the V-shaped piece cut from the bottom. At Fig. 2 the Same three pieces are shown stitched together,

and with the V-shaped opening in the third piece closed by stitching. Fig. 3 represents a boot made according to my invention.

It will he observed that the rear edge of the quarters or side pieces, A and B, is cut so that it shall correspond to the adjacent edge of the hacking-piece O afterv the latter is bent to shape.

In theimanufacture of the boot represented in my application No. 144,021, filed herewith, instead of thus cntting the quarters and inserting a piece to form the back of the boot or shoe, I cut them and stitch them together in the usual manner upon a curve corresponding to the rear contonr of the boot, and re-enforce them upon the outside by a stay or hacking having the essential characteristics of the inserted piece of the present application, and in my application No. 144,022 I show how a similar stay or hacking piece may he applied to a boot or shoe whose quarters are cut in one piece and themselves shaped to the last below the ankle in the same manner as the stay or hacking piece. Such inodifications and others are ohviously within 'the first claim of the present invention.

I clairn- 1. In a boot or shoe upper, the hacking formed of a single piece, narrow at the 'anklejoint and wide below, the said wide portion containing a V-shaped cut sewed up, substantially as described.

2. In a boot or shoe upper, the combination, with the quarters or side pieces, A and B, of the piece O, narrow at the ankle-joint and wide below, and contracted and shaped at the bottom, snhstantially as described.

VALTER T. MARTIN. 

